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Blues & Cruise Car Show and Blues Music Festival in Downtown Loveland 

  Kick off the summer with a day of great blues music and even better classic cars in the heart of downtown Loveland. They have merged our popular Blues Music Festival with a Classic Car  Show to bring you the best of both worlds. This event is free and open to the public.   In partnership with The Road Knights Car Club for this downtown event, the Road Knights will accept […]

todayApril 17, 2024

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Slash Announces Star-Studded Blues Covers LP ‘Orgy of the Damned’

Slash will pay homage to some of his earliest influences on his star-studded blues covers album titled Orgy of the Damned, which arrives on May 17.The 12-track LP finds the top-hatted Guns N' Roses guitarist putting his spin on a variety of genre staples and lesser-known gems, including Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues," Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man" (first recorded by Muddy Waters) and T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday." Like Slash's self-titled 2010 solo debut, […]

todayMarch 8, 2024 2

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Top 40 Blues Rock Albums

Somebody asked Muddy Waters what his blues meant. His reply: "Trouble.""What I meant was that the blues – from the gutbucket, alley blues, which I can offer, right straight up to the sophisticated, drawing room lament fashioned by that master musician Duke Ellington — the blues belong to my people," the legendary bluesman told the Chicago Defender in 1955. "The blues are an expression of trouble in mind, trouble in body, […]

todayJanuary 25, 2024 1

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Josh Smith shows you how to follow your musical inner voice and connect the dots in a blues guitar solo

Over the last few columns, I’ve been discussing the three devices I like to use to connect chords when soloing within a blues progression: chromaticism, diminished chords and ii - V - I turnarounds. I offered a lot of different examples of how to use each of these approaches when formulating an improvised solo.When I’m improvising a solo over a blues progression, however, I don’t want to be thinking too […]

todayNovember 17, 2023 5

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Nepali blues artist performs at US music festival

Ashesh Dangol, also known as Himalayan Hendrix, captivated the audience with a one-hour performance during the Best Dam Blues Festival held on the scenic banks of Milwaukee River in Thiensville, Wisconsin, US, on September 16. The festival, renowned as one of the most popular blues events in the US, took place over the weekend of September 15 and 16.This marks the first time in the festival’s history that a Nepali […]

todayOctober 5, 2023 4

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Hear the blues, reggae at the Taste of Deep South music festival

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Different genres of music can be enjoyed at A Taste of Deep South Festival that will be held in early October. A Taste of Deep South will take place from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, and Sunday, Oct. 8 at the Riverfront Plaza. The event is free and open to the public, and VIP tickets are available for meals and drinks. Attendees are […]

todaySeptember 23, 2023 3

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Exploring the History of Blues in America Through Music

If you want to know where your favorite musician came from, the answer is probably the blues. One of the most distinct and influential forms of American music and culture, specifically Black music and culture, the blues is the foundation on which rock, R&B and even hip-hop was built. But Jessica Parr, professor of the practice in history at Northeastern University, says the genre’s roots dig deeper than the history […]

todaySeptember 18, 2023 6

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A new, free Des Moines music festival unites six genres: Afrobeats, blues, classical, hip hop, jazz and Latino

Together Through Sound Riverview Park, Des Moines, Sunday, Sept. 10, 1 p.m., Free Together Through Sound organizers B. Well and Ashley Eidbo stand outside Riverview Park (710 Corning Ave, Des Moines), originally constructed in 1915 and revitalized in 2021. –Courtney Guein/Little Village Central Iowa’s freshest music festival is already bigger than its creators first imagined. Billy Weathers, better known as the hip-hop artist B. Well, and Ashley Eidbo, a double […]

todaySeptember 8, 2023 5

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Fleet Foxes to headline Burnaby Roots and Blues Festival

After Buffy Sainte-Marie announced that she would be halting live performances, a new headliner was announced for the Burnaby Roots and Blues Festival Thursday. The free, one-day event scheduled for Aug. 12 in Deer Lake Park will now be headlined by Fleet Foxes. Festival organizers extended their well-wishes to Sainte-Marie, who announced she needed to step away from live performances due to health issues and physical challenges. […]

todayAugust 4, 2023 2

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